toothed, the teeth blunt, glabrous and somewhat Glaucous, the lower paler 
and minutely puberulent or glabrous; -flowers dioecious, panicles 10-15 cm, 
long; sepals of staminate flowers 3-4 mn, long, oval, whitish, spreading; 
stamens pendant, 8-10 mm, long; sevals of pistillate flowers green, 2 mm, 
long, soon dropping; pistils comuonly 8-12, the styles 3 mm, long, purple, 
persistent; achenes 5-7 mn, long, 2-2.5 mm, wide, narrowly elliptic, acute 
at both ends, sessile, recurved in fruit, flattened laterally, with 5-10 
Ls 
longitudinal cestete—veins; seeds 4-4,5 mm, long, .5 mm. wide, dull black, 
a 
curving, rugose, with single longitudinal ridge, thinly and minutely glandular 
Pr ee 
with stalked glands, 
Common throughout our region in meadows and moist, open places in woods, 
or along streams, 2500-5000 ft. 
